Papers by Graham Thurgood
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1981
Cahiers De Linguistique Asie Orientale, 1982
servant, published as a column in the appendix of a book an 81-item wordlist with the heading Mal... more servant, published as a column in the appendix of a book an 81-item wordlist with the heading Malay of Champa, a designation that is essentially geographical. The existence of the list immediately brings up several basic questions: What language is it? That is, if it is Chamic, precisely which
Oceanic Linguistics, Dec 1, 1994
There are three possible ways to account for the Austronesian look-alikes in Tai-Kadai: common in... more There are three possible ways to account for the Austronesian look-alikes in Tai-Kadai: common inheritance, that is, the two languages families are genetically related; language contact, that is, the forms were borrowed into Tai-Kadai from Austronesian; and, chance, that is, the forms are merely look-alikes and nothing more. The evidence provided by recent reconstructions of various subgroups of Tai-Kadai shows that the Tai-Kadai forms are neither inherited on the one hand nor mere look-alikes on the other. Further, the ...
Language, 2001
LANGUAGE, VOLUME 77, NUMBER 1 (2001) 198 SLA. The fifthdeals withprocessing approaches, in the pr... more LANGUAGE, VOLUME 77, NUMBER 1 (2001) 198 SLA. The fifthdeals withprocessing approaches, in the process providing useful sketches of several models: B describes Bill VanPatten's input processing model, a model that describes learners as 'limited-capacityprocessors', andclaimsthatSLlearners process for meaning before form, specifically, for content words before grammatical words and for more meaningful grammar before less meaningful. Onlywhenlearnersareabletoprocessinformat...
Language, 2001
These papers, presented at the Seventh FASL Workshop at the University of Washington in Seattle, ... more These papers, presented at the Seventh FASL Workshop at the University of Washington in Seattle, 8–10 May 1998, cover East, West, and South Slavic languages and address issues in phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse. This volume will be of interest both for Slavic scholars and generative linguists that study other languages. Of the 21 papers in this volume, about half focus on topics in syntax. Different frameworks are represented in those syntactic papers. For example, the papers by SUE BROWN ('Negated yes/no questions in ...
Word Journal of the International Linguistics Associations, 2009
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2006
Even historical linguists occasionally criticize reconstructed languages because much of the vari... more Even historical linguists occasionally criticize reconstructed languages because much of the variation found synchronically in natural languages is not reflected in proto-languages. Although some variation shows up in protolanguages (see Ratliff, this volume), it is clear that significantly less variation is usually found in a proto-language than in any of the proto-languages' wellattested descendents. And, it is often true that historians could do a better job of incorporating the variation reconstructible back into the proto-language. However, to a ...
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 1996
This paper attempts to determine whether the particle ja in Kristang (spoken in Malacca, Malaysia... more This paper attempts to determine whether the particle ja in Kristang (spoken in Malacca, Malaysia) functions as part of an aspect, a tense, or an aktionsart system. The paper first argues that ja does not mark the perfective in an aspectual system. Second, it argues that ja does not mark the past in a tense system. It then argues, instead, that ja marks an aktionsart category, namely, a change of state. The paper concludes by noting some historical changes in the usage of ja and speculates about some incipient changes in the Kristang system as a whole.The analysis of this particle in different conversational settings suggests that for some speakers ja marks the present relevance of events that occurred in the past. This usage of the particle relates to its original adverbial semantics in Portuguese, where já means 'already'. However, it is argued that this change in the usage of the particle has been induced by English. English is now the dominant language for many Kristang ...
Where documents are made available* through records in La Trobe University Research Online they m... more Where documents are made available* through records in La Trobe University Research Online they may be regarded as" open access" documents; interested readers may read, download or print them, but they remain protected by copyright, and many are subject to publishers' policies regarding use, reproduction or communication. Please check individual records for details of other permissible use. If you believe that any material has been made available without permission of the copyright owner please contact us with the details.
Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 2006
SIL bibliography listing for Sociolinguistics and contact-induced language change: Hainan Cham, A... more SIL bibliography listing for Sociolinguistics and contact-induced language change: Hainan Cham, Anong, and Phan Rang Cham.
The world's major languages, Mar 21, 2003
There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the... more There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last decades. This volume covers the better-described languages, but with comments on the subgroups in which they occur. Ine addition to a number of modern languages, there ares on the descriptions of several ancient languages.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Sep 15, 2011
295 The Historical Development of the Akha Evidentials System Graham Thurgood Fresno, California ... more 295 The Historical Development of the Akha Evidentials System Graham Thurgood Fresno, California 0. Introduction. Evidentiality is discussed as a pragmatic and as a grammatical category by Jakobsen (1957), Nhorf (1956), and woodburyl (MS). Jakobscn (1957:4) terms evidentiality ...the verbal category which takes into account three events -the narrated event, the speech event, and the narrated speech event, namely the alleged source of information about the narrated event [italics mine]. The speaker reports an event on the basis of someone else's report (quotative, ie, ...
Oceanic Linguistics, 2004
This book deals primarily with the tonal system of Ma'ya and its historical origins, and sec... more This book deals primarily with the tonal system of Ma'ya and its historical origins, and secondarily with a description of the tone system of Matbat. Both are languages of the South Halmahera branch of South HalmaheraêWest New Guinea (SHWNG), a subgroup of Austronesian. Remijsen presents evidence showing the South Halmahera membership of Ma'ya and Matbat, a subgrouping consistent with that of Blust (1978). Beyond the primary focus on Ma'ya and the secondary focus on Matbat (chap. 5), there is a wealth of short ...
Language, 2003
The main topic of this book is the minimalist syntax of pronouns, with a special focus on clitics... more The main topic of this book is the minimalist syntax of pronouns, with a special focus on clitics and null pronominals. Steven Abney (The English noun phrase in its sentential aspect, Cambridge, MA: MIT dissertation, 1987) proposed that pronouns should be treated as a special case of functional heads, namely as intransitive determiners. Panagiotidis offers a detailed and systematic refutation of Abney's proposal and claims that determiners, like all functional heads, necessarily have a lexical head inside their complement. As a matter of ...
Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 28 From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects Two Thousand ... more Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 28 From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change Graham Thurgood ... From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects This On. DCSA-46S-DYX5 ... Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 28 From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change With an appendix of Chamic reconstructions and loanwords Graham Thurgood University of Hawai'i Press Honolulu ... © l999 University of Hawai'i Press All rights reserved ...
... PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 019437078X [pbk]). VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): x, 243 p. SUBJECT... more ... PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 019437078X [pbk]). VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): x, 243 p. SUBJECT(S): Language and languages; English language; Communicative competence; Study and teaching. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. LC NUMBER: P53 .B79. HTTP: ...
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